Summer House at Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1962. Summer house. 3 related planning applications.
Summer House at Manor House
- WRENN ID
- watchful-chapel-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1962
- Type
- Summer house
- Address
- Summer House at Manor House, Manor Road, Little Shelford, CB22 5HF
- OS grid reference
- TL 455 519
- Coordinates
- 52.1463, 0.12621
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The summer house at Manor House, dating from the early 18th century, is constructed of red brick and features a pantiled roof. It has a broken pediment above a Venetian window, which is supported by four attached wooden Doric columns. The central bay contains the entry, while the adjacent bays have hung sashes with original ovolo mullion glazing bars set above rusticated panels. This summer house is located in a corner of the walled garden alongside the River Cam.
Local climate
Summer House at Manor House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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